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Deltakiral
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| Quote: | | Until this month, the only Dragonball DVDs ever sold in Japan were in a 26-disc DVD box that sold for 100,000 yen (US$830). |
Damn the Japanese are ruthless, there idea of a deal is a boxset where each disc cost more then thirty dollars....and ya wonder why there so afraid of reverse importation. Good to see that the folks in Japan are supporting Hellsing, I would say to see that series get canceled half-way through the series. |
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ZeroRyoko1974
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:48 am |
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| At about $5.42 an episode (830 dollars/153 episodes) it would seem that would have been an absolute steal by Japanese dvd prices. Consider that Bandai Visual thinks that 50 bucks for 2 episodes is quite normal (and by the market standards in Japan it certainly does seem that way). So by normal dvd standards at 20-30 bucks an episode, 3000-4500 dollars would have been considered normal pricing |
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Malintex Terek
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:16 pm |
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OtoBoku's last DVD was a lot more popular than I would have thought. o_O;
The 2ch.net data from September I think indicated OtoBoku to be more popular than Kanon '06, but I never thought that would ultimately be the case - I'm right, but still, for a fairly low-budget show with a generic premise and a load of cliche, OtoBoku did pretty darn well.
That, and the additional episode was said to be awesome.  |
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who_is_friend
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:11 pm |
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| ZeroRyoko1974 wrote: | | At about $5.42 an episode (830 dollars/153 episodes) it would seem that would have been an absolute steal by Japanese dvd prices. Consider that Bandai Visual thinks that 50 bucks for 2 episodes is quite normal (and by the market standards in Japan it certainly does seem that way). So by normal dvd standards at 20-30 bucks an episode, 3000-4500 dollars would have been considered normal pricing |
Don't take BVUSA's prices as the standard to judge all releases. Most Japanese DVDs contain three episodes on a disc nowadays. You could expect to pay a higher price for an OVA though, which was what Gunbuster was.
An extremely odd exception was Nana, whose first DVD sold for 777 yen in July only for two episodes. |
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Pepperidge
Joined: 13 Sep 2003
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Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:23 pm |
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| It was one episode on the disc, not two. |
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fighterholic
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:01 pm |
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| 30 dollars per disc would not be bad pricing, especially over there in Japan. I was lucky to find used DVDs for that price. |
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kokuryu
Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:15 pm |
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Personally I think they are nuts accepting those prices over there.
But you know they have been releasing specials and single episodes for some really cheap prices over the years. Only a few hundred yen each. I even have a couple that have multiple first episodes on it from several series at one time - the most expensive was about 1000 yen.
I am glad to see Otome wa Onee-sama ni Koi Shiteru up there so high, and I am not surprised that Kanon is number one as well - they are both kinda similar in art style and cuteness (although the stories are totally different). |
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10円
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:18 pm |
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| kokuryu wrote: | | Personally I think they are nuts accepting those prices over there. |
Over on AoD some people appear to be warming up to BVUSA's prices, at least at the DVDP discount rate. |
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Steventheeunuch
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:25 pm |
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| For those who are weirded out by the high cost of the Dragonball (and infact DBZ/GT/Movies) box, please keep in mind that these sets were holy god damn crap awesome and came with some really good things, and the best picture quality in the world, plus were the first real collected version of the series ever on DVD, and other stuff. |
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Roy9076
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:20 pm |
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| Steventheeunuch wrote: | | For those who are weirded out by the high cost of the Dragonball (and infact DBZ/GT/Movies) box, please keep in mind that these sets were holy god damn crap awesome and came with some really good things, and the best picture quality in the world, plus were the first real collected version of the series ever on DVD, and other stuff. |
Is that so? Then I can see why Japan will buy it up! Hell, if they are willing to pay Wii Sports separately or a PS3, then what's wrong with this? |
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Spotlesseden
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:18 am |
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| japanese anime dvds are always around that price and has less eps, they are used to it already. |
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